Re: How to prevent empty page after MPpage?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot!!! The magic apparently works. I don't understand what
>> exactly the "obeylines" macro does (it seems that it just makes sure
>> that none of line endings get lost, not even inside definition
>> itself).
>>
>>
> 
> sometimes when you typeset a piece of text like poems, you actually want to
> go to the next line, so one solution would be to put a \par at the end of
> each line but if there are too much of these lines, then you will get sick
> of typing \par at the end of each line and so there is a CS namely
> \obeylines that does this automatically. Lets look at one example:
> 
> I am a Plain \TeX\ user,\par
> and you are a Con\TeX t User,\par
> There are other people who use La\TeX,\par
> but we all are \TeX\ users.
> 
> {\obeylines
> I am a Plain \TeX\ user,
> and you are a Con\TeX t user.
> There are other people who use La\TeX,
> but we all are \TeX\ users.}
> 
> See in the above one, whenever I wanted to end the line and go to the next
> line, I had to put a \par, but in the second one I just put \obeylines which
> is the same that means ecah end of my lines will be treated like a \par.

\startlines
I am a Plain \TeX\ user,
and you are a Con\TeX t user.
There are other people who use La\TeX,
but we all are \TeX\ users.
\stoplines


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